mr. barry watts the sectors egypt assessment. mr. fred downey vice president national security aerospace association and pierre chao, senior associate industrial or international security program center for strategic and industrial studies. again, gentlemen, thanks for taking the time to be with us today. i also wanted to give it to thank mr. schilling and mr. loebsack and their staff for hosting the panel and the quad city area of illinois and audio. we have an informative discussion there with an industry leaders and learned a great deal of what goes on at the rock island arsenal. it was extremely useful and i appreciate all the effort that went into it and i want to thank blackhawk college for letting us use their facilities to hold the meeting at the committee staff prepares a summary of the discussion at rock island and was provided to all the panel members and without objection i would like that to be entered into the record. hearing no objection, so ordered. on friday members of the panel will travel to akron ohio to hear from

mr. levin: i yield two minutes to the yeal from california, maximum -- gentlelady from california, maxine watt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california, ms. waters, is recognized for two minutes. ms. waters: i thank the gentleman from michigan, congressman sander levin, for the time. i rise to oppose this so-called free trade agreement. i find it deeply disturbing that the united states congress is even considering a free trade agreementle with a country that holds the world's record for assassinations of trade unionists, and would cause a loss of 55,000 jobs in the united states. the congressional black caucus has been working hard to create jobs. we held job fairs in five cities in the country. we have been working hard to create jobs because the unemployment rate in this country is unacceptable. 9.1 throughout the country. 11.3 for latinos, 16% for african-americans. we need jobs. not an unfair trade agreement. additionally according to colombia's national labor school 51 trade unionists were assassinated in colombia in 2010. that's more than the rest of the world combined.

mr. levin: i yield two minutes to the yeal from california, maximum -- gentlelady from california, maxine watt. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california, ms. waters, is recognized for two minutes. ms. waters: i thank the gentleman from michigan, congressman sander levin, for the time. i rise to oppose this so-called free trade agreement. i find it deeply disturbing that the united states congress is even considering a free trade agreementle with a country that holds the world's record for assassinations of trade unionists, and would cause a loss of 55,000 jobs in the united states. the congressional black caucus has been working hard to create jobs. we held job fairs in five cities in the country. we have been working hard to create jobs because the unemployment rate in this country is unacceptable. 9.1 throughout the country. 11.3 for latinos, 16% for african-americans. we need jobs. not an unfair trade agreement. additionally according to colombia's national labor school 51 trade unionists were assassinated in colombia in 2010. that's more than the rest of the world combined.

mr. speaker, this once again is a very good bill that's before us. the fact there hoover dam in nevada produces more than 2,000 meg i.t.a. watts which is enough to power two million households of clean electricity and that captures more than 28 million acre-feet of water for the states of arizona and nevada and california. 75 years since this engineering marvel was completed, hoover dam is still a key role in fulfilling economic job creation its job creation mission. this bill extends part of that mission. it's all paid for by the electricity ratepayers. it would cover all capital, all maintenance and all those associated with this power component of the hoover dam. there is no tax mear costs to this -- taxpayer costs to this bill. i want to thank congressman heck for bringing this bill and thank congresswoman napolitano for her work on this bill. i encourage my colleagues to support this no-cost job-supporting legislation. i urge adoption of this measure and with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is will the house suspend the rule